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| Chambers: |
Owen Dixon Chambers East |
Room: |
711 |
| Phone: |
9225 7361 |
Fax: |
9225 8951 |
| Mobile: |
0412 775 151 |
e-mail: |
rseifman@bigpond.net.au |
| Admissions: |
N.S.W.(1978) |
| Admitted: |
31-Oct-1979 |
| Mentor: |
Mr Justice Kay, Boris Kayser, Raymond Johnstone and Mr Maitland Lincoln |
| Signed bar roll: |
05-Dec-1979 |
| Qualifications: |
Bachelor of Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Laws (University of New South Wales) as well as Master of Criminology (Melbourne University). |
| Languages: |
Yiddish, Hebrew, German |
Robert is proficient in all aspects of Jewish Law (Rabbinical Court) and has won the Commonwealth Scholarship, the Anglo-Jewish Association Scholarship (1976, 1977 and 1978) and the Nuffield Grant (1977). He was appointed the University of Melbourne Research Fellow for the Faculty of Law (1979 - 1981); as a NSW Barrister to the Supreme Court in 1978; as a Victorian Barrister in 1979, and was admitted to practice in the High Court of Australia in 1981.
Robert prefers to work within the areas of white-collar crime, sports law, building cases, professional negligence, mediation, and Rabbinical Court.
Robert's publications include Chapter 9 'Plea Bargaining in England' in Plea Bargaining (W.F. McDonald and J.A. Cramer eds) Lexington Books, 1980; The Rise and Fall of Cain (1976) Crim.L.R.556; The Plea Bargaining Process: Trial by Error (1977) N.Z.L.J.362; Decision Making in Australia's Environmental Law (1976) 6 Env.Poll.Mgt 173; Plea Bargaining in Victoria - Getting the Judge's Views (1982) Crim.L.J.69; Night Court: Dispensing Justice After Dark or Time to Turn Off the Lights? (1996) Jo.Jud.Admin.221 and 'Plea Bargaining in Victoria: The Role of Counsel' (2001) 25 Criminal Law Journal 64 (with A. Frieberg).
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